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As a Texan, no.

He's a crook, but he's our crook.  He is a very typical politician though.  It's good for our movement right now and he wont step out to hurt the party, but he also is a slimebag.  He's on record with way to many slimebag issues here.  GWB was totally spotless compared to Perry.

It's going to be a tight race here in Texas against Kay Bailey for him anyway.

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He is not a true conservative, he is a globalist.  He's attended at least one Bilderberg meeting.  He'll sell you out any chance he gets, as longs as he doesn't think you'll realize it.

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I don't know a lot about him other than what i've read & seen on tv. He seems to be a true conservative. His state actually has a surplus & he turned down a hell of a lot of stimulus money. He's a big 2nd amendment supporter.


Any of our fellow Texans have better knowledge on him?





I don't know why, I just find myself thinking more & more that this guy could be a great choice for the Republican party in 2012.
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[edit] Barbour vs. The Partnership
Barbour's taxation policies have not been without contention. In March 2006 Barbour vetoed a bill that would lower grocery taxes, while simultaneously raising tobacco taxes.[16] Mississippians pay some of the highest grocery taxes in the nation.[17] The "Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids" insinuated that Barbour's lobbying-era affinity with the tobacco industry may also explain his 2006 proposal to dismantle Mississippi's controversial youth-tobacco-prevention program, called The Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi.[18] The Partnership is a private, non-profit group which receives $20 million annually and is led by former Attorney General Mike Moore. Moore created the organization when he, representing the State of Mississippi, settled a multi-billion dollar suit with the tobacco industry. According to the suit, the funds were to offset the extra costs incurred by Medicaid while dealing with smoking related illnesses. Opponents have consistently claimed that Moore uses the organization to further his political ambitions. The Partnership regularly offers up huge grants to political organizations such as the Legislative Black Caucus. Many point to even more facts such as The Partnership not allowing a public audit which in turn permits the group to have no public accountability of its expenditures of state funds. In 2006, Judge Jaye Bradley, the same judge that awarded Moore the annual $20 million in 2000, vacated her previous decision. Bradley claimed she did not decide against The Partnership because of its inability to perform but because she believes that the state legislature is the only body that can legally decide how state funds can be delegated. Following the decision, Barbour stated that it says a lot about Judge Bradley “…that she is a strong enough person to have the gumption to vacate her own order. The only way for the state to spend state funding is for the Legislature to appropriate it through the legislative process."[19]　 After an appeal by Moore, Barbour went on to win a Mississippi Supreme Court battle that prevented the tobacco settlement moneys from funding the program, maintaining that is unconstitutional for a judge to award state proceeds to a private organization. Barbour's lawyer stated The Partnership was "the most blatant diversion of public funds to a private corporation in the history of the state of Mississippi" as The Partnership refuses to allow a state audit of its expenditures of the state's money.[20]

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Absolutely not.      

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He's not presidential material.


And Palin should go back to her hole and never come out again. What an idiot. She did no good for the conservatives this election.

remind people, Regan faced the same smears Palin is facing. Don't listen to haters do your own research.

Just my 2 cents and I will support the more conservative candidate regardless.

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He's more a true politician than a true conservative.  He seems to be sewing his conservative roots now more than ever. Maybe now that his Progressive leaders are out of power he's just being himself more instead of following the Rovian doctrine?  I honestly think that's possible, but am unsure. I think he's a lot better than most. And better than Kay Bailey's Washington elite ass for sure.

Here some complaints about him that I got in an email:

Rick Perry’s record:

•      Toll Roads and Trans Texas Corridor – Is it socialism, fascism or communism? (2003)
•      Business Margins Tax – backdoor state income tax (2006)
•      HPV vaccine mandate – Attack on parental rights (2007)
•      FLDS El Dorado raid – Religious Oppression, traumatizes 438 children and their parents; out of control Child Protective Services raid based on crank phone call (2008)
•      Defeats Steven Wayne Smith – makes robo phone calls against most conservative Supreme Court judge in modern Texas history (2004)
•      Vetoes Texas Eminent Domain Bill – taking your land for a toll road more important than signing property rights protection overwhelmingly passed by Legislature. (2007)
•      Signs Hate Crimes bill –– Attack on free speech and creates thought crimes, includes sexual orientation as a class! (2001)
•      Globalist bootlicker – for United Nations, NAFTA, CAFTA, Trans Texas Corridor, Bilderberger toady.
•      Governor for NINE years, then reads about the 10th Amendment a few weeks ago. (2009)
•      Supports No Child Left Behind Act and Dept. of Education (Hey, is the federal government running your local school in the Constitution? Fine with Rick Perry.)
•      Endorsers liberal cross dresser and gun grabber Rudy Guiliani for President (2008) – tells his good friend Mike Huckabee I love you like a brother, but you can’t win so I am going with gun grabber Rudy Julie Annie, he’s a sure thing! The Bilderbergers said I can be VP if I grovel enough and am for toll roads, globalism, open borders, big government and, of course, the Federal Reserve.
•      Token opposition to illegal immigration – probably because the illegals will be building all his toll roads! Opposes wall on Mexican border.
•      Does not stand up for elected State Board of Education every time it gets castrated by the liberals in the legislature (2000s). Throws crumbs to conservatives on SBOE, but when they really need him, hides under desk, sticks fingers in ears.
•      Instituted state CHIP program!, a widely abused program and one more step to socialized medicine, more taxes and rationed healthcare. (Hey, is CHIP in the 10th Amendment?)
•      Texas Enterprise Fund –  basically, Rick Perry’s slush fund for politically connected insiders, another WASTE of your tax dollars. Big Government + Big Business = Fascism.
•      Supports whopping $3 Billion Cancer BOND, the Lance Armstrong cancer tax – more taxing, borrowing and spending. (2007).

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Too little too late.  I just looked up Kay Baily Hutchinson.  She just got my vote

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I would rank romney above him, and that is not saying much for Romney.  He is an ok govenor, but thats it.  I cannot forget his support for the toll road naphta super highways until texas votors overwhelmingly shot that down at least for now.  Talk about trying to rob the state and its people blind.  I do not know enough about Kay Baily H.

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He's more a true politician than a true conservative.  He seems to be sewing his conservative roots now more than ever. Maybe now that his Progressive leaders are out of power he's just being himself more instead of following the Rovian doctrine?  I honestly think that's possible, but am unsure. I think he's a lot better than most. And better than Kay Bailey's Washington elite ass for sure.

Here some complaints about him that I got in an email:

Rick Perry’s record:

•      Toll Roads and Trans Texas Corridor – Is it socialism, fascism or communism? (2003)
•      Business Margins Tax – backdoor state income tax (2006)
•      HPV vaccine mandate – Attack on parental rights (2007)
•      FLDS El Dorado raid – Religious Oppression, traumatizes 438 children and their parents; out of control Child Protective Services raid based on crank phone call (2008)
•      Defeats Steven Wayne Smith – makes robo phone calls against most conservative Supreme Court judge in modern Texas history (2004)
•      Vetoes Texas Eminent Domain Bill – taking your land for a toll road more important than signing property rights protection overwhelmingly passed by Legislature. (2007)
•      Signs Hate Crimes bill –– Attack on free speech and creates thought crimes, includes sexual orientation as a class! (2001)
•      Globalist bootlicker – for United Nations, NAFTA, CAFTA, Trans Texas Corridor, Bilderberger toady.
•      Governor for NINE years, then reads about the 10th Amendment a few weeks ago. (2009)
•      Supports No Child Left Behind Act and Dept. of Education (Hey, is the federal government running your local school in the Constitution? Fine with Rick Perry.)
•      Endorsers liberal cross dresser and gun grabber Rudy Guiliani for President (2008) – tells his good friend Mike Huckabee I love you like a brother, but you can’t win so I am going with gun grabber Rudy Julie Annie, he’s a sure thing! The Bilderbergers said I can be VP if I grovel enough and am for toll roads, globalism, open borders, big government and, of course, the Federal Reserve.
•      Token opposition to illegal immigration – probably because the illegals will be building all his toll roads! Opposes wall on Mexican border.
•      Does not stand up for elected State Board of Education every time it gets castrated by the liberals in the legislature (2000s). Throws crumbs to conservatives on SBOE, but when they really need him, hides under desk, sticks fingers in ears.
•      Instituted state CHIP program!, a widely abused program and one more step to socialized medicine, more taxes and rationed healthcare. (Hey, is CHIP in the 10th Amendment?)
•      Texas Enterprise Fund –  basically, Rick Perry’s slush fund for politically connected insiders, another WASTE of your tax dollars. Big Government + Big Business = Fascism.
•      Supports whopping $3 Billion Cancer BOND, the Lance Armstrong cancer tax – more taxing, borrowing and spending. (2007).

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Kay Hutchinson FTW, a tough old bitch who knows all the rules.

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It's going to be a tight race here in Texas against Kay Bailey for him anyway.

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I think he should work harder to get his own house in order before trying fix someone elses.

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Am I the only one who misses the 11th commandment. I am so tired of seeing conservative on conservative hate crimes like above.

As for Perry, he is a conservative next to Kay Bailey or John McCain but that is not a ringing endorsement. He has moved strongly to the right since the Obamagedon but he is lacking when it comes to articulating the conservative agenda. We need somebody like Regan who could speak to America in a way they understand and relate to. I had hopes this would be Palin but she appears to be week in foreign policy ( I would still trust her over Obama obviously). I would like to see her adopt a more libertarian foreign policy, this would triangulate anti war liberal support and from the dems who will be tired of watching (what they perceive) Obama act like Bush when it comes to the war(s). By moving to a more isolationist foreign policy she would also move the debate to her strong area, fiscal conservatism. I think with modern technology we are at a point where isolationism may finally be a viable strategy.

I remind people, Regan faced the same smears Palin is facing. Don't listen to haters do your own research.

Just my 2 cents and I will support the more conservative candidate regardless.

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Eh, I would vote for him. He is pretty much PERFECT on RKBA issues, but lack on some others. The whole trans-whatever corridor baloney should have never happened. He comes off to me as a little slimey.
That said you can't argue the huge surplus and balanced budget.

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He is not a true conservative, he is a globalist.  He's attended at least one Bilderberg meeting.  He'll sell you out any chance he gets, as longs as he doesn't think you'll realize it.

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I really, truly, honestly cannot understand why Texans from this board would oppose Rick Perry, but for some mysterious reason they absolutely do and without remorse.

Texans bitch and moan about Rick Perry trying to build a freeway in a state that has the worst traffic congestion that I've ever seen, even though he has a perfect record on gun rights, signed tort reform into law and has implemented other policies that has kept our state economy strong. Meanwhile, Kay Bailout Hutchison completely ignores the will of voters in this state, votes for the largest government spending bill during my lifetime, opens the door for the government to socialize the private sector and Texans can't jump up and down high enough or fast enough to express their excitement over the possibility of voting for her to replace our Governor. It boggles my fucking mind like nothing else, but it is a fact of life in the Lone Star State.

Perry would never be electable on a national scale. It'll be 100 years before another Texan takes the White House. It's a DAMN shame too, because Perry would fix the problems in Washington and good, but it just won't happen.

So to anyone ever planning on running for state office in Texas, don't you EVER think about trying to build a freeway in this state! It doesn't matter how fast the population is growing, how congested the freeways are, how outdated the transportation system is or what the projected population growth will be, don't EVER think about building a freeway in this state! The people will turn on you like a school of rabid piranhas!

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Kay is alright but she's not going to have a chance against Perry.

Sure he's a politician but they all are and right now he's the best of the bunch as far as I can see. I'd definitely prefer him over McCain.

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Can you elaborate?

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Palin/Perry 2012!!

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Tin foil hatted bullshit with tin foil hat bullshit explanations.

ETA -

If those of you outside of this state will take notice please, then you'll see something interesting here. Texans bitch when Governor Perry tries to turn functions of the government over to the private sector and they bitch when he institutes government programs. It's un-fucking-believable! The guy can't win for losing!

Try and update the highways in a state that is the second most populous state in the union with a project 50% population growth along the I-35 corridor over the next 35 years, and the people fucking freak out!

'AT's MA LAY-ND!

Try and reduce the cost to taxpayers for maintenance of highways by selling them to private corporations as pay-per-use toll roads and the people freak out!

'AT OL' BOY IS SELLIN' DA FREEWAY!

Token opposition to illegal immigration! That's a fucking rich one! I'd like to see what the people would have said if Perry had seized land and billed the taxpayers to build a fucking wall on the border!

That list is the stupidest thing I've read in my life.

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god I hope not.  I wish the RNC would hurry up and get rid of Palin - seriously.  As a former Republican consultant, I assure you that it is for the best.  We were hitting our heads against brick walls after her Africa comment.  Look to Haley Barbour as a continuing rising star.

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Slap yourself and get back to reality.  It will be Romney in 2012.  Everyone knows the Republicans need to moderate  Plus, he's been fully vetted unlike the rest of the turds that are 'frontrunners'

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1. I'm pretty sure we're already taxed to pay for the roads. I seriously doubt Perry has any intention of pushing for a reduction in those taxes.
2. Why should I have to pay for the roads twice? Tax me, then charge me a toll?
3. None of the companies that would be buying the roads are based in the U.S., and none of the workers on those roads would likely be U.S. citizens. From what I recall, the largest of those companies was based in mexico...like enough of our money doesn't go there already.
4. Have you even bothered to look at the proposed route of the corridor, or the amount of land that would be claimed under eminent domain, or how much of that land is agricultural? Do you even care that some of that land has been in the family's possession for generations?

Anything with regard to immigration has to be done at the federal level, period. Congress has the sole power of regulating it, and has chosen not to, in any form.

BTW, I voted against Cornyn for his support of TARP. I intend to do the same in the case of Hutchison––and I DO NOT want her as governor. Also, you might want to take note of a previous poster. Perry only won the last election with 39% of the vote...against unknowns in the political arena. He's not well liked for a reason...actually a lot of reasons.